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KYIV, Ukraine — Government troops were engaged in a pitched battle with rebels on Jluy 26 just outside the separatist bastion of Donetsk and plan to advance next into the city that has been at the heart of the pro-Russian insurgency.

If the army succeeds in retaking Horlivka, a city of almost 300,000 people where fighting was fierce July 26, they will be within a few miles of Donetsk.

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